Dredging vessel Vox Maxima is seen in the waters off Sentosa after a collision with a bunker vessel resulting in an oil spill, in Singapore, June 15, 2024. REUTERS/Edgar Su
Four Dredger Crewmembers Involved in Major Singapore
Oil Spill Plead Guilty
March 13, 2025
Four Dutch crew members involved in a ship collision
in Singapore have pleaded guilty for their role in the
city-state’s worst oil spill in a decade, the Straits
Times reported Wednesday.
Richard Ouwehand, Martin Hans Sinke, Eric Peijpers,
and Merijn Heidema admitted to failing to discharge their duties properly and
pleaded guilty to one charge each under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, the
newspaper said.
The sailors were on Netherlands-flagged dredger Vox
Maxima when it struck bunker-fuel vessel Marine Honour at a shipping
terminal in June 2024, damaging ten cargo oil tanks and necessitating repairs
that could cost over S$6.6 million ($5 million). They are scheduled to be
sentenced on April 2. Each of them can be fined up to S$50,000, jailed for up
to two years, or both, the report said.
The spillage was carried by a tidal current
as far as the east of the island for more than 30 kilometers (18 miles),
leading to a clean-up that took over two months.
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